I am the head coach of this team so it starts with me. That is a good football team in that locker room over there. Their quarterback, I believe, is a junior. He has a lot of game experience. We got a kid starting his 8th game. On the road. At night. In the cold. Most of our kids have never been cold.
That blocked punt didn't help. We knew that they would be focused on the new snapper but we have never seen them run that punt block before. The player, that I'm not going to name, had a couple of bad snaps but like I said I'm the head coach and it's on me.
On defense, I think we had the right calls but there were a couple of missed tackles. Again I'm not going to name any specific players but when we made the call we expected the starting left defensive end to know his assignment and cover the wide receiver down the field. Also the offense didn't help the defense by scoring on only 4 out of their 6 possessions and only taking 10 minutes to score those points.
In the end, I'm the head coach and this loss is on me but Blacksburg is an extremely difficult place to play. Just ask East Carolina and Georgia Tech, they barely won games here this year.